The Plague is on tonight

Staff: Mentor

The History Channel is repeating their documentary on the Plague tonight. It was very good.

It began like the common cold. Then fever, baseball-sized black swellings on the neck, coughing of blood. Few lived more than two days. The year--1347. It was history's worst biological disaster and almost half of Europe's population died within three years. Visit the plague ships' rat-infested holds, witness the terror that swept through the towns, and walk with the religious flagellants. Follow a princess as she travels into the center of the plague, a doctor who struggles to understand what is happening, and a Jewish merchant caught up in violent attacks. Hear the actual words of the victims, taken from diaries and journals. From the Pope's palace to the humble huts of medieval peasants, watch as people live and die in the unforgiving grip of fear and death, and wonder how we would act if such a terrible event happened today.

If this doesn't put you in the Holiday spirit, nothing will.

The UK sight has the website presentation that went with the original.

Surprising how many villages disappeared due to black death and enclosure, there are four sites with a five mile radius from me, not that there is much to see above or below ground,
but in some cases a church or a farm house remain.
within my area is, Chaple Ascot, Hodnel, East End and Watergal.

Staff: Mentor

Surprising how many villages disappeared due to black death and enclosure, there are four sites with a five mile radius from me, not that there is much to see above or below ground,
but in some cases a church or a farm house remain.
within my area is, Chaple Ascot, Hodnel, East End and Watergal.

I'm going to have to come visit you some day Wolram. The historical sites in your area would be a dream to me.

Damn! I mean killed fair and square I could handle, but by a freak accident?

Yes i remember that one, your horse stumbled, the tip of you lance dug into the ground,
the sudden stop catapulted you out of the saddle high in to the air, you landed head first ,the weight of the armour driving you waste deep in the ground.